Reimagining Tomorrow: Cutting-Edge Tech in Urban Design
Urban design is being revolutionized by cutting-edge advancements, enabling the creation of advanced and sustainable cities. This session covers the high-tech tools that make it possible to design the world’s most advanced cities. What are the implications of these technologies for city living, and their impact on urban environments and residents’ quality of life? How […]
Reinventing Cities: Public-Private Collaboration for Sustainable Urban Regeneration
Cities and the private sector must join forces to develop a zero-carbon, resilient, and inclusive urban regeneration model. What are the strategies that cities can uptake? What is the private sector’s role? This session will showcase best practices and flagship urban regeneration projects including Reinventing Cities – a powerful initiative involving 30 global cities and […]
Covering Needs to Make a City Home
How are cities adjusting to evolving urban dynamics to meet the needs of their residents effectively? What strategies can cities adopt to guarantee equitable access to essential resources for all their citizens? The session will delve into the measures being put into place by local governments to ensure access to urban design necessities, discussing the policies that are globally shaping more inclusive, sustainable, and secure cities.
Crafting Smart City Experiences: Madinah as a Model
In the midst of the struggle to balance supply-driven and demand-driven technology adoption, city officials face the challenge of ensuring the practical implementation of human-centricity in their smart cities. How can cities translate strategies and theories into actionable initiatives that prioritize livability and inclusivity in technology adoption? Madinah, Saudi Arabia has tackled these dilemmas by introducing its City Experience Playbook.
How cities are leading the development of local digital twins
Following the examples of Barcelona and Munich, we will discuss how cities are leading the development of local digital twins to support urban decision-making and citizen engagement. Why cities should have a digital twin? What are the challenges of implementing these technologies at the local level?
Radiography of the People who will Inhabit the Cities of the Future
We live in complex times that are shaping the course of the cities and people who will inhabit the cities of the future. We propose an inspirational session to find out: What will their families be like? What priorities, fears and struggles will remain? How will they communicate and relate to each other? Where will they work? What will be their main leisure activities? We propose a space for dialogue to reflect on how to make the cities of the future more liveable.
Digitalized, Equitable, and High-Quality City and Territory
‘Ciudad y Territorio Digital’ from the Observatorio 2030 integrates the digitalization of the built environment at all levels, from rural areas to cities, focusing on the technological impact to improve mobility, the definition of public spaces, and universal accessibility. It addresses the optimization of energy, water, and waste and the possibilities that digitalization offers to […]
Empowering Urban Resilience through Digital Twins
What are the key benefits of integrating digital twin technology into smart city initiatives? How are digital twins revolutionizing urban planning and decision-making through real-time monitoring and prediction? This session will explore how digital twins have become a crucial tool, anticipating urban scenarios and facilitating the creation of more adaptive and sustainable built environments for their citizens, and predicting what it will bring in the future.
This session featured the participation of our global partners Axis Communications.
From Idea to Product: Cities’ Digital Twins Empowered by R&I
Ubiwhere, a digital SME, invests daily in Research & Innovation in Digital Twins and other cutting-edge technologies alongside great partners and consortia. Find out in this keynote how Ubiwhere’s body of work with academia, corporations, and communities is suiting the future of more than 75 cities around the world towards sustainability and better living conditions.
Transforming our Neighbourhoods: How to Get People and Politicians Onboard?
Urban transformation often faces hurdles in gaining community buy-in and navigating political landscapes. A way to bridge the gap between aspirations for change and the reality of implementation remains in communicating well about the co-benefits of the urban design changes. In this session, C40 will delve into the critical question of garnering support from both […]